Radeon HD 7870 Gigabyte OC Edition is a special edition of the powerful Radeon HD 7870. See the standard version for more information about it. The differences include an increase in the core-clock that went from 1000MHz to 1100MHz and a new quiet and efficient cooling system is also available. Benchmarks indicate a 5% performance boost when compared to the standard Radeon HD 7870. All games, including demanding one's, will run on the highest settings.

Hi iam new here but am running a 3570k OC to 4.2 and with this GPU iam playing BF3 and BF4 I run a add called AMD gaming evolved which sets games auto max if you wish it to or on normal which ever you what works well for me on above.&#60br /

I'm hoping I can keep using this card when The Witcher 3 and Dragon Age: Inquisition are released, playing at mostly high settings. I can already guess I won't be able to max everything, at least not ubersampling (or its equivalent in TW3), and I obviously won't be able to use any of the PhysX effects with an AMD GPU alone. So far, though, it handles everything well. I don't regret getting it for current games and a few shortly upcoming releases…but there are always those face-melting eye candy games coming up down the road…

Physx with an AMD gpu is dependant upon the CPU, which is really powerful (OC'd 3570k is awesome), 7870 is still an awesome graphics card, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to play most games @1080p with AT LEAST medium setting, probably high though.

Oh yeah, I know my GPU is still pretty powerful, and will still be viable for another year or so, even with new releases (although I don't own any games that run on the Frostbite engine, so I'll see how it goes with Dragon Age III). I've tried PhysX in the Batman: Arkham games a few times, and it's…playable…but it definitely cuts the FPS in half. I have Mirror's Edge, but I haven't really played it since I got this CPU last year. There's PhysX in that game, as well, and I remember using it on my previous CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Black Edition), and the FPS was something like 5 LOL. Big mistake! I've got a really tame OC on my 3570k, so unless I OC it some more, I probably won't get much of a performance boost with PhysX enabled. Oh that reminds me: Does anyone know anybody who uses the AMD-Nvidia hybrid drivers (for AMD GPU with Nvidia GPU slaved for PhysX processing)?

Yeah should be all fine.Although get an FX 6300 instead. It will perform much better than a 6100 and will cost much less than any of i5s ;)if you feel like money is no problem I would say, go with an fx 8320